Socialist Worker

Coal museum strikers not losing steam

Unison members at the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield have been on all-out strike for 16 weeks in a dispute over pay ...

Labour accused of treating oil and gas workers 'like the miners in the 1980s'

EXCLUSIVE: Louise Gilmour of GMB Scotland claimed the abandonment of the energy workers is akin to forty years ago.
Reuters

Utilities will need more coal imports as mines close

LONDON (Reuters) - British utilities will become more reliant on imported coal after two large domestic producers complete mine closures announced on Thursday. Power generators including E.ON UK and ...

How heat from old coal mines became a source of local pride in this northern English town – new study

This has enormous potential as a sustainable energy source. Schemes such as the mine water district heat network in Gateshead, in north-east England, are already providing low-carbon, cheaper heat and ...
Reuters

Pit blaze could be dying embers for Britain's coal mines

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's burning coal pit may herald the last act for UK underground coal mining, which is already battling greener government policy and cheap imports from Colombia, Russia and ...
CNN

UK condemned by its own climate advisers for greenlighting first new coal mine in three decades

Scientists, environmentalists and even the UK government’s own climate advisers have strongly criticized its decision to approve a plan to open the country’s first new coal mine in three decades, a ...